How to create a shortcut with "Run as administrator" checked

[Voxen06]

Hi,

I need NSIS to create my application's shortcut with "Run as administrator" checked by defaut, because otherwise the application auto-update feature doesn't work (updated .exe cannot be written to C:\Program Files).

I tried to set RequestExecutionLevel admin but it doesn't help.

Is it possible to do that from NSIS? I really don't want to ask customers to manually set this checkbox manually after the installation.

Thanks for your help!

[Afrow UK]

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d....mspx?mfr=true
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d....mspx?mfr=true

Stu

[Voxen06]

I'm not sure this is what I need.

The "runas" will ask for administrator password each time the application is launched, right?

I need that application runs as administrator when the user double click on the shortcut, exactly like if he does check the "Run as administrator" from the shortcut properties.

[Afrow UK]

You may have missed the 2nd link which I added a second later.

Stu

[Voxen06]

Thanks for your help, but it still doesn't make it.

I tried to create a shortcut with this:
runas /user:ComputerName\administrator "C:\Program Files\App\App.exe"

When I double click the shortcut, it opens a command line window that asks for my password.

The shortcut is a half part of the problem, because my application is also started with Windows (from the registry's Run key) and it has to start with administrator privileges too.

[Afrow UK]

I came across this:
http://www.softtreetech.com/24x7/archive/53.htm

Stu

[Anders]

sample code @ http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/ar...9/6801084.aspx hopefully someone can convert it to system plugin code

[grzech]

Here is the full code with error handling I wrote for that:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....hreadid=278764

It's C++ though. I put that in our dll and simply executed upon successful install using rundll32.


PS. Sorry for bumping an old thread - mistake due to message filtering.